Week of 2026-01-12

Yeah, I didn't get my notes out last week. I suppose phrasing it that way makes it sound like I wrote anything at all--I didn't. It was for a good reason though: Nothing really happened, and I was traveling at the time!

Traipsing about Seattle again

It was my birthday on the 13th, and TWICE happened to be relatively in town and having a concert on the day! So, Morgan and I made it a bit of a getaway, walked all over downtown Seattle, ate some delicious food, and overall had a great time.

Unfortunately, I ended up at the concert with no hearing protection. It was very loud. Don't be like me. I needed like 72 hours before the tinnitus wasn't at the front of my auditory mix. Don't forget your AirPods at home, kids.

To top it all off? Right about the time I recovered my hearing, both Morgan and I succumbed to seasonal illness. We had some great highs last week, but now it's been Sunday in our house for like 4 days now and we're collectively over it.

I used Beacon Bits pretty extensively while I was up in Seattle. You should take a look at all the pins I placed; hopefully the locals up will start placing their own beacons soon!

Beacon Bits

Put your posts on the map. Built on the AT Protocol.

NixOS for days

Alright, it's not like I've done absolutely nothing. I've done one thing: Slowly but surely set up NixOS on my M2 15" MacBook Air.

If you were to ask me at the start up the month which of my many computers I would dual-boot with Linux, my MacBook would not have entered my mind. It has been many, many years since I last did the Linux-plus-some-other-OS dance, and I generally like macOS enough to not mess with it.

But then... I tried setting up nix-darwin. What a nightmare. I just want to use Nushell, man, and nothing with nix-darwin seemed to work properly.

I had hoped that the experience would be comparable to using NixOS via WSL on my PC, but sadly this was very far from reality. So, I ended up slipping down the path of seeing if NixOS was viable on Apple Silicon, courtesy of Asahi Linux. The answer was yes, and because I had just fresh-installed my MacBook, what else did I have to lose?

My machine isn't quite in a usable state for project programming, but I've learned a lot about not only NixOS, but also Nix and Linux in general. Hopefully I'll be able to get it fully cleaned up this week.

Alright, I think this will do for the last couple week's notes. Stay healthy out there, and I hope you have a great week!